Collaborations with Barneys New York, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Opening Ceremony to explore and bring to market new smart wearable technologies, and to increase dialogue and cooperation between the fashion and technology industries.

Intel also introduced Intel Edison, a new Intel Quark technology-based computer housed in an SD card form factor with built-in wireless capabilities and support for multiple operating systems. Intel says it will “enable rapid innovation and product development by a range of inventors, entrepreneurs and consumer product designers when available this summer.”

From what I have read, IBMs silicon-based nano-optical technology is still a few years away from really being ‘commercially viable’. Whenever a company like IBM announces new tech like this they always tend to stretch the reality of how long it will take to bring the technology to market. I remember working on a press release for IBM’s first ‘wearable’ computer, complete with glasses-based screen and a small hand-controlled pointer back in the early ’00s, and we still don’t have a product a decade later……

What happened to photonic integrated circuitry? IBM developed a commercially viable method for creating this in 2012 and it is much more realistic to be achieved in the short term as opposed to graphene, but no one is talking about it? I’m not an expert, but I’m just curious as to why it is not receiving in publicity.